5th Grade Wrap-Up

Grammar Rules

100

The name of a word that comes at the beginning of a sentence and is followed by a comma.  

Examples: Well, no, yes, Hey, etc. 

What is an interjection?  

200

This is what we call words like French, German, Italian, American, when they come before nouns. 

Example: French fries

What are proper adjectives?  

300

Name two instances where you would use an apostrophe.  

What are: a conjunction or a possessive?

400

Name the 3 R's of paraphrasing.  

What are Reread, Replace, and Rearrange?

500

Tell me what two parts of the writing process the acronyms ARMS and CUPS are used for.  

What are revising and editing?  

Tuck Everlasting

100

Name the specific genre of this book.  

What is low fantasy?

200

Name the main setting for this book.  

What is Treegap?  

300

Name the character who lost his wife and children because he drank from the spring.  

Who is Miles?

400

Name the antagonist of the novel.  

Who is The Man in the Yellow Suit? 

500

This is the symbol Angus Tuck uses to describe regular life.  And this is the symbol he uses to describe him and his family

What is a wheel?  

What are rocks by the side of the road?  

Sign of the Beaver

100

Name the group of Indians that Matt encountered in Maine.  

What are the Eastern Woodland Indians? 

200

Matt's baby sister died from this disease.  

What is cholera?  

300

When Attean was ready to become a man, he was sent out to find his ___________. 

What is manitou?  

400

This is another name for a rifle, mentioned in the book.  

What is a blunderbuss? 

500

This was the book that Matt used to teach Attean how to read.  

What is Robinson Crusoe? 

The Birchbark House

100

A makuk is a ____________. 

What is a bowl?  

200

This is the tribe of Indians that is depicted in the book.  

What is the Chippewa/Ojibwa/Anishinabe? 

300

Name the two ways the family is able to make a living.  

What is fishing and maple sugar?  

400

The chimookoman is ____________.  

What is an ice monster?  

500

Name the type of bird that is mentioned in the last chapter, Full Circle, that visits Omakayas, and reminds her of Neewo.  

What is the sparrow?  

U.S. History

100

The French and Indian War was a war between these two sides.  

What is the British and the Indians and the French and the Indians?  

200

The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British on the colonists who were trying to buy these items. 

What are paper goods?  

300

The King of Britain issued the Proclamation of 1763 to prohibit the colonists from settling in lands west of this mountain range.  

What are the Appalachian Mountains?  

400

Name at least 2 of the branches of the American government. 

What are:

legislative (Congress)

executive (the President)

judicial (the Supreme Court)

500

Give me two different names for the war fought between the colonists and the British.  

What is the Revolutionary War or the American Revolution?